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Locust-hit Barmer farmers stage protest, demand special relief package
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Barmer (Rajasthan ) [India], Feb 5 (ANI): Hundreds of farmers in Gudamalani of Rajasthan's Barmer district on Wednesday held a day-long demonstration, demanding compensation for their crops lost in the locust attack.
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Rajasthan minister writes to PM Modi over locust attack
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Barmer (Rajasthan) [India], Feb 4 (ANI): Rajasthan revenue minister Harish Chaudhary has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to declare the cases of locust attack as a national calamity.
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Capt Amarinder requests PM Modi to take up locust menace in Punjab with Pa
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Jan 28 (ANI): Concerned over the spate of locust attacks on crops in areas of south Punjab, bordering Rajasthan, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct External Affairs ministry and the Indian High Commissio
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No incidence of locust attack in Punjab, says Agriculture Secretary
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Jan 16 (ANI): The state's Agriculture Department on Thursday said that no case of locust entering Punjab has been reported so far.
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Rajasthan CM meets locust-attack affected farmers in Barmer
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Barmer (Rajasthan) [India], Jan 03 (ANI): Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday met the farmers of Barmer whose crops have been ravaged due to a locust attack, the worst in about two decades.
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Pakistan: Punjab govt. forms 102 special team to control locust attack
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): The government of Pakistan's Punjab province has formed 102 special teams to monitor the possibility of a locust attack on cotton crops in the southern region of the province.
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Pakistan takes steps to control locust attack
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Punjab [Pakistan], July 6 (ANI): The Provincial Secretary Agriculture, Wasif Khursheed, on Saturday said that teams have been formed to control the latest locust threat which has put thousands of acres of cotton crop in the line of devastation in Pakistan.
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Rajasthan: Authorities on alert after locust attack warning
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Barmer (Rajasthan) [India], Jun 24 (ANI): In the wake of a locust attack threat from across the Pakistan border, authorities here have gone on an alert to deal with a swarm of the tropical grasshoppers entering India since the insects can devastate standing crops.
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Locusts from Iran endanger cotton crops in Pakistan
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], Jun 24 (ANI): Things don't seem to be looking up for Pakistan's economy, as a locust attack from Iran has put around 2,00,000 acres of cotton crop in the line of devastation in Sindh.
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Rajasthan: LWO gears up to tackle locust attack
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Barmer (Rajasthan) [India], May 31 (ANI): After sightings of locusts in villages around Rajasthan's Jaisalmer near the border with Pakistan, the Jodhpur-headquartered Locust Warning Organisation (LWO) is gearing up to tackle any major attack by the tropical grasshopper.
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